I was one of those people that swore they would never read digitally. Pfft. I spend enough time online and reading with an LCD. When I want to read, I want to escape to the olden days of paper and no batteries required. Or so I thought.

Fast forward a year ago when I moved into my new apartment. There were boxes and boxes that were so tightly packed, I figured I made some type of mistake and brought bricks. Bricks or the Seven Dwarfs, the Munchkins from Oz, and Miley Cyrus’ backup dancers had all climbed into moving supplies. Typical first world problems, I have too many books, not enough room and bookshelves for them. It was nerd armageddon.

So, then I bought a tablet.

It will be more for lying in bed and watching Netflix, I said.

Or catching up with emails while in commute, I lied.

Then came another tall tale. Stephen King’s Under the Dome is so heavy! I’ll just download the large ones.

The ease of having twenty pounds was too much of an alore. Same way Chris Brown enjoys felonies. Now, to be fair, I’ve always been aware of this. I was just one of those people, commence rolling eyes, who wanted to smell a book all the time. I wanted to feel the book. (Go ahead, reach through the screen and slap me.)

Then I downloaded seventeen volumes of The Walking Dead comic books. I want to read those before I start the series. So this is what heaven feels like.

The power of any book is the words. Whether you absorb it through paper, or screen, or even audio, it’s how it makes you feel that matters. Did the story grab you? Did it kick you in the side? Did the character jump off the page- or whatever? The form doesn’t matter. It never did. It’s just something people use to justify your choice and I’m all for you having one.

Don’t get me wrong, though. I still have books. I love decorating with them. When the Time Warner installer came to set up my internet, he looked through them and questioned all of my religious texts. He couldn’t have done that with an ereader- and a wonderful conversation on theology would’ve been lost. Thing is, do I need to have every paper version that I read? I will literally become the old woman that lived in a shoe book!

So there you have it. Brand me with the scarlet letter if you must. Here, I have some dollar store lipstick- I’ll draw the A on for you. I have no regrets about going digital. I actually read more now, than before. Worst part is, when I find a book that isn’t on a digital format, I pout. Go figure.

Tell the truth, how do you like your books? What’s your flavor?